Sounds

So I'm working away, and I'm doing these transformations of graphics files, right? And my computer is writing from one drive to the next, doing something advanced, like shuffling data between disks because these files are really large -

anyway, I'm listening to the thing.

It makes little cat-like noises, or maybe they're mouse-like noises -oh, duh, right: they're COMPUTER noises!

anyway, I'm listening to this thing as it shuffles, and I'm noticing that it's sort of breathing as well. There's a steady hum that, when you listen really really (and I mean really) closely (like for ten minutes straight with the top of your head resting right up against the case) you can distinguish a kind of resperation to its dwell noise (I call it dwell noise). When I'm working through a few gigs of data it starts clicking and spitting, it sounds like a beetle trying to fly out of a bottle on a really hot evening.

anyway I'm listening now, listening closely.